Michael C. Dawson is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago.

Thomas Edsallis a contributing op-ed and opinion writer for the New York Times and former Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, where he continues to teach.

Andrew Moravcsik is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.

Nathaniel Persily is the senior research director for President Obama's bipartisan Commission on Election Administration, the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford University, and serves on the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Advisory Committee.

Ian Shapiro is a Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Dara Strolovitch is an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies and affiliated faculty in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and serves on the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Working Group on Participation.

Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of philosophy at McGill University and recipient of the Berggruen, John W. Kluge, Kyoto, and Templeton prizes, was our 2016 Democracy Fellow.

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The work of the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program is possible due to generous funding from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Knight Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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The Inaugural Democracy Papers were produced as part of the planning process for the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program, which asks how democracies can capably address large problems in the public interest.